On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:06:31 +0100
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 03:07 PM 2/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:09:31 +0100
> >Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > At 08:53 AM 2/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > > >Hartmut Henkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > > So there might be some corner for improvement. Using strcmp() the
> > > > > reverse way seems not to speed up things; how to write a more
> > > > > sophisticated inequality-checker?
> > > >
> > > >Heiko stated that he used a hash table for this. This will speed up
> > > >things dramatically.
> > >
> > > but if i remember right he only looked at the first 8 chars (assuming
> > > berry) which is not that useful for texnansi-* files -)
> > >
> > > the best way (imo) is to let later entries overload previous ones, so not
> > > much checking is needed at all;
> >
> >I remember this discussion on the pdftex-list and can still not understand
> >why we should look for overloaded entries. pdftex should take the first match.
> 
> no, the last one, since users may want to overload the defaults (quite 
> important if you use pseudo caps/slant/extend)

i see its importance and i have nothing against overloading defaults.
I mean that the overloading should not work in the way that an
later entry replaces a prior entry, instead the map-files that contain
the user-settings should be read before pdftex reads the defaults.
Then pdftex can take the first match and can stop reading map-files
if it has all required entries found.

Jens
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